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Showing 1 to 20 of 317 for “"Diasporic"”.
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Diasporic tactics
This document acts as the written form of an art practice that can be described by making an analogy between the artist and the itinerant migrant worker. This thesis is an elaboration on certain viewpoints, encounters, and case studies that have lead me to do my actual [art] work. In it I attempt …
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Transnational Political Participation Among Diasporic Migrants
<p>Contemporary migrants participate in a variety of dual social, political, and economic processes. Sending and receiving states overtly encourage transnational practices when they allow migrants to maintain homeland citizenship regardless of their citizenship status in their receiving …
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Dress as metaphor in diasporic fiction
… constructions of gendered, especially female, diasporic identities and examines patterns of dressing as strategies that allow for engagement with a grander narrative that takes into consideration history and politics, mapped through changes in dress, during and post colonisation. The thesis is …
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Ghanaian diasporic migrant students: challenges, culture and capitals
… the lived experiences of nine Ghanaian, diasporic, migrant children in Key Stages 3-5 in a London secondary academy. These children migrated from Ghana and from within the European Union to the UK. The focus is on the extent to which the learning of these children is affected by their …
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Transnationalizing Indian education: Diasporic networks, politics and participation
… between India's education policy and its skilled diasporic networks is at the center of my inquiry. The entry of non-state actors and capital flows in Indian education provides a broader context to situate the three diasporic organizations I study: Asha for Education, Pratham-USA, and Ekal …
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Cultural Stereotypes: From Dracula's Myth to Contemporary Diasporic Productions
This study is focused on a highly topical theme, which belongs to the pluralist practice of cultural studies, and aims at investigating a remarkable phenomenon of identity-shaping and cross-cultural exchange. Starting from an analysis of Dracula as the epitomized image of the Balkans (and of …
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Los Angeles Artists and Revisionist Historiography: A Diasporic Intervention
<p>This dissertation examines contemporary Los Angeles-based artists whose identity and work engages with issues of diaspora. I combine visual analysis of the artwork with interviews with the artists to look at the ways in which they utilize several visual and theoretical concepts of diaspora, …
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Crossing over: theorising Mehta’s film trilogy; practising diasporic creativity.
… Theorising Mehta’s Film Trilogy, Practising Diasporic Creativity” articulates a critical-creative research discourse. It crosses over in terms of traversing critical scholarship on genre and audience, assuming multiplie cultural positions, as well as in bridging the theory/practice divide. …
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Land, Water, and Stars: Relationality in Anishinaabe and Diasporic Literature
… and Stars: Relationality in Anishinaabe and Diasporic Literatureexamines how relationality is encoded and portrayed in poetry, short stories, and novels by Anishinaabe and diasporic authors, Elizabeth Acevedo, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Gerald Vizenor, and Mohsin Hamid. Through engagement …
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Expressions of Diasporic Identity: Transcultural Language in Jewish-Greek Inscriptions
The diasporic Jewish experience is characterized by the dynamics of acculturation and enculturation, a twofold process entailing a degree of integration into the majority culture and at the same time a strong retention of the Jewish identity. The primary purpose of my thesis is to demonstrate how …
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Jamaican Diasporic Counter-Archives: Performative Archival Imaginings In Ontario, Canada
The colonial foundation of institutional archives in this place called Canada preserved records that narrated the nation as White, patriarchal, and capitalist. In this context, scribal and audiovisual records made by the elite were prioritized. The marginalization of Indigenous peoples, Black …
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Online diasporic political spheres: inside the emerging spaces for Zimbabweans
… their democratic promise. The case study is on diasporic media by citizens from troubled Zimbabwe, whose mass media environment remained a subject of much debate. Between 2000 and 2009, many Zimbabwean local independent media organisations were banned from reporting from within the country and …
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TRANSNATIONAL JAZZ AND BLUES: AURAL AESTHETICS AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC FICTION
… the influence of jazz and blues on African Diasporic fiction. While the influences of jazz and blues on African American cultural production have received critical attention for many decades, I contend that literary criticism neglects to recognize that jazz and blues are more than just …
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“The Wilderness Within”: African Diasporic Religion in New Granada, 1690-1790
This dissertation examines African diasporic religions in New Granada in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In particular, it argues for the constitutive role of black mobility, space, and state institutions in their creation and circulation. Africans and their descendants—whether black …
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Diasporic orchestrations: a database narrative of Australian and Bulgarian cultural entanglements
… intertwines with the main theme of the work – (diasporic) identity formation in the context of global interconnectedness and incessant virtual and physical mobility. Within this research study, the diasporic is envisaged as a dynamic field of cumulative and contingent attachments to a diverse …
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In Place: Visualising Migrant and Diasporic Home-making in Contemporary London
… artists based in London and of migratory and diasporic backgrounds based in London, installation artist DoHo Suh by artist filmmaker Alia Syed, I investigate how they challenge the sedentarist models and materialising migratory and diasporic home-making practices and, in doing so, provide more …
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NOTIONS OF DISCONTENT AND DISTINCTION: REFLECTIONS OF YOUNG DIASPORIC TAIWANESE AMERICANS
<p>In 1971, Taiwan lost its seat in the United Nations and has been vying for international validation ever since. The Kuomintang’s (KMT) loss and the development of Taiwan’s democracy has left millions with varying opinions pertaining to the status of Taiwan. It also brings up the importance of …
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Diasporic connectivity and patriarchal formations in the sex trafficking of women
This thesis explores diasporic connectivities and formations of patriarchy in the cross-border sex trafficking of women in the United Kingdom. The function of heteronormativity in the trafficking process is also a key concern. This is a multi-methods study, drawing on interviews with experts in the …
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Tamazgha in France: Indigeneity and Citizenship in the diasporic Amazigh movement
… and understand the political geographies of this diasporic social movement in the contemporary moment. It does so by approaching the Amazigh diaspora as its primary object of research within a relational, multiscalar analysis of its geopolitics. This thesis contributes to the subdiscipline of …
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After Mary Prince: navigating 'authenticity' in 20th-century diasporic women's migration narratives
This project calls for a renewed consideration of Mary Prince's 1831 Caribbean slave narrative in critical readings of 20th-century women's migration novels. Specifically, I offer readings of how the signs "gender" and "labor" are strategically deployed and manipulated in contexts of migration. …
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